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Joel Perez (Dean of Transitions and Inclusion) spoke at an event, the ReNew Campus Leadership Forum, at Cedarville University in Ohio in May. Joel served as a facilitator in a forum that discussed the complexities of diversity and reconciliation. The event was geared toward Christian college faculty and staff who help determine their university’s policies and strategies in regard to ethnic diversity. In addition, Joel was a faculty member at Duke Divinity School’s summer institute on reconciliation May 28 to June 2. His seminar was titled “Reconciliation and Academic Institutions.”

Ed Higgins (English) published a poem, “Ok, ok, so I concede,” in the May 2012 issue of The Shotglass Journal, an online journal dedicated to short poetry.

Laura Gifford (Scholar in Residence/History) received a Bordin-Gillette Researcher Travel Fellowship to conduct research at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan. She plans to look into the George Romney Papers, and secondarily, at the papers of 1970s-era Michigan governor William Milliken.

Brian McLaughlin and Tim Goodfellow (IT) received a Northwest Academic Computing Consortium Hugi Exemplary Practice Award for their work on the iGFU mobile portal project. The Hugi Award Program recognizes individuals or groups whose outstanding work in technology has benefited NWACC member institutions. More about the award is on the NWACC website.

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